New Perspectives on Old Texts : Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 9-11January, 2005 / edited by Esther G. Chazon, Betsy Halpern-Amaru in Collaboration with Ruth A. Clements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Exile and self-identity in the Qumran sect and in Hellenistic Judaism / Noah Hacham -- The legacy of the Teacher of Righteousness in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Loren T. Stuckenbruck -- Ritual density in Qumran practice: ablutions in the Serekh ha-Yah? / Michael A. Daise -- From Enoch to John the Essene--an analysis of sect development: 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and the Essenes / Eyal Regev -- Education and wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls in light of their background in antiquity / Bilhah Nitzan -- The use of Scripture in 1Q/4Q mysteries / Torleif Elgvin -- "Memory and manuscript": books, scrolls, and the tradition of the Qumran texts / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- The wood-offering: the convoluted evolution of a halakhah in Qumran and rabbinic law / Cana Werman -- Further reflections on a divine and angelic humanity in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis -- The polemic against the Tevul Yom: a reexamination / Martha Himmelfarb -- Qumran and the genealogy of Western mysticism / Philip S. Alexander.

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This volume presents new perspectives on the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls. New methodologies and topics include identity, memory, ritual theory, sectarian sociology, philosophy of education, liturgical anthropology, Jewish law, history of religion, and mysticism.

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